Most Indian SMBs have done some SEO. A developer added meta tags, an agency built links for a year, someone wrote blogs when there was time. The site ranks for the company name and a few odd phrases. Traffic reports arrive, but nobody can say which enquiries came from search, or why last quarter's ranking gains produced no new customers. SEO is being done in pieces, by different hands, and no one owns the whole.
Why it persists. SEO is sold in slices. One vendor offers technical audits, another offers links, a third offers content, and each is judged on its own slice: errors fixed, links built, articles published. Nobody is judged on enquiries. Owners cannot tell whether the work was good, because the report measures activity rather than outcome, and the honest answer, that results take months and depend on every slice working together, sounds like an excuse when it comes from the vendor who benefits.
If it stays unresolved. Search does not stand still. Competitors who run a steady programme keep adding pages, authority and reviews, and the gap between their visibility and yours widens quietly each quarter. The longer the pieces stay disconnected, the more of your market's search demand goes to someone else by default.